244 - December 2005

The Source Pete’s, pictographs, Verm’s V-scale, crash pads, the beginnings of the life as we know it. It all went down near the Mexican border, in a place called Hueco Tanks.By Luke Laeser Photos by Tim Kemple

The Southern Way Rock Town, HP 40, Little Rock City — with sandstone this sweet, who needs grades, names, or a bad attitude?By Adam Henry Photos by Martin Suchma

The Poetry of Mountaineering Before pads, videos, gyms, comps, there was ... bouldering. An old master muses on the state of the art, 1969. By Pat Ament

Grit Therapy On the hard gritstone of England, most climbers pray they won’t get injured — but one boulderer went there to heal.By Lisa Rands Photos by Dean Fidelman